Continuing with apparent descriptions, the guide was published in 1997 but requires location in 3001. The conventional means of facts storage is described as a smaller object that retains roughly a person terabyte of details.
The identical transpires with Riker, and to a lesser extent Picard, on Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Naked Now," the crew is infected with a virus that mimics the consequences of staying drunk.